Commonweal Magazine - Oct 21st, 2016

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A Review of Religion, Politics & Culture

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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Commonweal october 21, 2016  •  volume 143  •  Number 17

Election 2016 Issue Upfront Letters Editorial Columnist You’ll Feel a Little Pinch short takes Summoned America First? Articles It Still Takes a Village Hillary Clinton, conflicted communitarian Women & Children First Catholics & the politics of the family

4   5  Stunts & Punts  6  Mollie Wilson O’Reilly  8  Christopher M. Duncan 11  R. Scott Appleby 14  Russell Arben Fox 19  Bernard G. Prusak

Essay Lost in Storyland

23  Mark Phillips

film Sully & Snowden

27  Richard Alleva

books The Fractured Republic by Yuval Levin Tribe by Sebastian Junger Making the Unipolar Moment by Hal Brands Questions on Love and Charity by Thomas Aquinas edited and translated by Robert Miner Poetry Traitor Cosmos That September and October Last word Blind Spots

29  Peter Steinfels 33  Andrew J. Bacevich 34  Regina Munch 36  Brian Davies

10  Dan Burt 22  Valerie Wohlfeld 26  Lawrence Joseph 38  Gordon Marino

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